Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The NL West has gone Clayton-crazy! The Dodgers have Clayton Kershaw. The Padres have Clayton Richard. The Giants have Clayton Tanner. And the Rockies have Clayton Mortensen, who has never faced the Dodgers before. And you know what that means. Oh, you don't? Okay, it means the Dodger bats might disappear again, as the team seems to have trouble against unfamiliar pitchers. (Familiar pitchers, too, but that's beside the point.) Then again, the Rockies aren't exactly afire, and the Dodgers are on a mini-roll. Are two straight series wins in the offing? Let's find out!

Timewarp back to 8:13p - 8:15p: the on-field delay was apparently because Iannetta and Tracy protested Blake's scoring of a second run off of Kemp's 2-RBI single. Iannetta looked like he tagged Beard on the back, but the highlight also looks like Beard is already over the plate at that time. But I'm biased.

Kemp hit a liner to left, and it bounced right in front of Wiggy. There was a chance that Wiggy could catch it, so Andre did not advance to second. By the time he got going, the Rox got the force out at second.